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GAO-01-274R 1 (2000-12-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaliz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 4 SGAO Accountability * Integrity Reliability United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 December 21, 2000 The Honorable Christopher S. Bond Chairman Committee on Small Business United States Senate Subject: SBA: Investigation of an SBA Employee's Travel Dear Mr. Chairman: As requested, enclosed with this letter is a copy of a briefing that we gave to your staff on November 21, 2000. At that time, we briefed your office on our investigative findings concerning travel by the Deputy Associate Administrator for Communications at the Small Business Administration (SBA). This included determinations of the official's travel costs for fiscal years 1999 and 2000 and of the tasks undertaken by this official while in travel status. To make these determinations, we interviewed the SBA Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff/White House Liaison, Associate Administrator for Communications and Public Liaison, and Deputy Associate Administrator for Communications. We also reviewed travel vouchers, authorizations, and itineraries for the Deputy Associate Administrator for Communications and the SBA Administrator for fiscal year 1999 and the first 11 months of fiscal year 2000.1 We conducted our investigation, in response to your October 13, 2000, request, from October to November 2000 in accordance with investigative standards established by the President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency. In brief, from October 1, 1998, through August 31, 2000, SBA's Deputy Associate Administrator for Communications made 50 trips at a total cost to the government of approximately $58,840. He made at least 39 of these trips in conjunction with trips by the SBA Administrator. Of the remaining 11 trips, the travel vouchers and authorizations for 8 contained no reference to the Administrator; and the other 3 were to attend training sessions. According to SBA's Chief of Staff and Deputy Chief of Staff, when the Deputy Associate Administrator for Communications travels with the Administrator his role includes speech review/rewrite and coordinating press activities, such as interviews and media contacts. Prior to and during a trip, he and other SBA employees do whatever needs to be done in or outside their assigned roles, including advance work, to accomplish the trip's mission. 1 Travel vouchers for September 2000 were unavailable at the time of our request. GAO-01-274R An SBA Employee's Travel

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